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%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Collett, Toby H.J. and MacDonald, Bruce A. and Gerkey, Brian P.
%T Player 2.0: Toward a Practical Robot Programming Framework
%B Proc. of the Australasian Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ACRA)
%C Sydney, Australia
%D 2005
%K robotics, player, programming
%X Player/Stage has become a de facto standard in the open source robotics community.
We describe recent work on restructuring the Player robot device server into a
system that more closely aligns with the idea of a robot framework. The general
requirements for a robot framework are also discussed. Player 2.0 is a major improvement
in two basic areas, simplicity and flexibility. The driver API has been vastly
simplified with many more parts of the communication being hidden from the user.
The flexibility of the new system is realised in the library division that allows
for different transport layers (or no transport at all), and in the new device
address structure that allows for inter-server device subscriptions.
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